The Mamaroneck River is a freshwater stream located in Southern Westchester County, New York. The river forms in White Plains and Harrison and flows 7.3 miles (11.7 km) south through Mamaroneck Town and Village, where it empties into Mamaroneck Harbor and Long Island Sound. The name of the river comes from a local native American word meaning, "where the fresh water meets the salt water." The river flows into Long Island Sound.
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Mamaroneck Harbor is the name of a bay located in the village of Mamaroneck on the Long Island Sound, in Westchester County, New York. It is open to southerly winds but affords shelter against northerly winds for vessels drawing less than 10. The depth in the outer harbor is from 7 to 12 feet at low tide. Mamaroneck River is a shallow, and a stream or tidal inlet. The rocks in Mamaroneck Harbor rise abruptly, and some of them are bare at low tide.
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Westchester Hebrew High School is a private Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Mamaroneck, a village in Westchester County, New York, United States.
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Sportime Harbor Island is a tennis club owned and operated by Sportime NY, located in the Village of Mamaroneck, New York inside Harbor Island Park. The club has eight outdoor red clay tennis courts that are bubbled during colder times of the year. It also has a lounge and a pro shop. The club offers private lessons, adult leagues, tennis kinetics programs, elite tournament training, a 10-and-under tennis program, a match play program, tennis parties and a children's summer camp.
The New York Sportimes of World TeamTennis, of which Sportime NY was the majority owner, played their home matches at the club from 2003 through 2008. A temporary stadium with a seating capacity of 1,843 spectators was erected for Sportimes matches. During their residency at Sportime Harbor Island, the Sportimes won the 2005 King Trophy as World TeamTennis champions. In 2009, the team relocated its home matches to another facility owned and operated by Sportime NY on Randall's Island in New York City.
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The Otter Creek Preserve is a protected area of salt marshes in Mamaroneck, New York. It was transferred to the Westchester Land Trust in 2015. The preserve contains about 90% of the productive salt marshes in Westchester County.
Otter Creek Preserve was designated a Geologic Area of Particular Concern by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in 1978. In 1984, a proposed housing development in Rye Neck was debated for its possible effects on the preserve.
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The Battle of Mamaroneck was a skirmish in the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on October 22, 1776, at Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York.
Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army to White Plains, British General William Howe landed troops in Westchester County, intending to cut off Washington's escape route. To cover the eastern flank of his army, Howe ordered Major Robert Rogers and his Queen's Rangers to seize the village of Mamaroneck which had been recently abandoned by the Continental Army. On the night of October 22, 750 men under Colonel John Haslet attacked the British encampment. Haslet's men achieved complete surprise, but Rogers' Rangers rallied and drove off the attackers. However, they suffered greater casualties than the Americans. Historian Otto Hufeland described the fight: While at White Plains Washington was informed that the regiment of loyalists, recruited in the vicinity and commanded by the renegade Colonel Robert Rogers was encamped at Heathcote Hill in Mamaroneck. Lord Stirling at once ordered Colonel Haslet and Major Green with seven hundred and fifty men to attempt a surprise attack on the Rangers during the following night. Unfortunately the attack was made when the sentries were being changed and the surprise was not entirely successful, but the Rangers were “very roughly handled” as one of their historians admits, quite a number being killed and wounded. As a result of the raid the Americans brought back “a pair of colours, sixty stand of arms and a variety of plunder,” besides thirty-one prisoners, every one of whom was a “native of this government.”
The watershed of the Mamaroneck River is 17.4 sq mi (45 km2). It is dominated by suburban residential neighborhoods and commercial and retail tracts. High density residential development also is prevalent throughout the middle and lower portions of the watershed.